#LookAndSee 211 #MusicChallenge “A chance encounter You want to avoid The inevitable So you do Oh yes, you do The impossible Now, you ain't got a number You just wanna rhumba” youtu.be/ctpzzTR15yo

Day 5 of #5CoverSongsSwitch Kasey Chambers-Lose Yourself (2022) Probably my favourite gender flipped cover of recent times, a powerful live rendition of Eminem’s massive 2002 hit. Who knew banjo playing could be so dramatic? If you haven’t seen this before: it builds, stick with it.

A bunch of songs I have recorded - originals and covers - can be found here… youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Been listening to The Wrens album “Meadowlands” a lot since hearing this track “Happy” on the @cbbworld.bsky.social CBB-FM podcast. May have been out 20+ years but it’s great to find good music whenever you get round to it. youtu.be/2JubQi-4fCs

Could not #sublimate Into five seven and five All that has gone wrong #vss365

#LookAndSee (210) #MusicChallenge “Life and death are things you only do when you’re bored say fear is a man’s best friend” youtu.be/cm2tVda1LGE

RUPERT MURDOCH: Are you local? You’ll never leave!

Day 4 of #5CoverSongsSwitch Grace Jones-Warm Leatherette (1980) Daniel Miller’s 1977 paean to JG Ballard’s novel “Crash” under his band name The Normal was very DIY, stark and minimalistic. Grace’s version takes it into a dub sex dungeon for a cheeky white line or two. youtu.be/pfwDNhAxJ2Y

Quite enjoying “The Hack” on ITVX about the phone hack scandal. Particularly like the way that when they’re redacting and not saying sensitive names that they’re telling us when they’re doing it.

#readandplay (484) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Did write a song about age so may as well post it here. “I bless the DNA that brought us here But my shortening telomeres Orchestrate collapse This masonry is cracked It’s maybe December? Struggle to remember Of course it’s age” youtu.be/W2LcV1IORIQ

Nick Pope #NUFC

If the only way I am exposed to [New thing] is people moaning about [New thing] online then isn’t that just successful marketing by whoever looks after [New thing] ?

fuzzy triangles male and female #escutcheons always there, lurking #vss365

#LookAndSee (209) #MusicChallenge “Lilac wine is sweet and heady where's my love? Lilac wine, I feel unsteady where's my love? Listen to me why is everything so hazy? Lilac Wine, I feel unready I feel unready for my love” youtu.be/MBXEkPjsEJg

Day 3 of #5CoverSongsSwitch The Stranglers-Walk On By (1978) Bacharach/David song released by Dionne Warwick in 1964. The Stranglers weren’t the first to gender flip the song, but they did made it spiky. Biting guitars and keys so Doorsy that they wander off at some point to light someone a fire.

#readandplay (483) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky For anyone who remembers Pele popping up in weird Viagra adverts. “I never care Who I go to bed with Male or female There's never any, never any, never any incentive” youtu.be/u0Rhac7Y1YI

Ryder Cup post match interview if the sports journalists were replaced with Ryder Cup crowd members. Q. Why your balls got not in the hole?

Was going to watch a bit of the Ryder Cup but the eyes of the in studio 3D rendered golfers following the camera gave me the ick.

As someone who has always lived in England I’m glad social media came along to make me understand more deeply how Scots, Welsh & Northern Irish people must feel whenever exposed to the UK national media. So many voices online assuming by default the person listening to them is from the same place.

#scrutiny #vss365

Day 2 of #5CoverSongsSwitch The Linda Lindas - Linda Linda (2022) The band whose sheer exuberance may eventually rescue us all took their name from a song released by Japanese band The Blue Hearts in 1987. It was a bonus track on their album “Growing Up”. #MusicChallenge

I don’t know many who watched the show Uncle, about a not very successful musician and his family, but must be said Nick Helm buried the odd banger in its soundtrack. youtu.be/5jeI1M5XAvM

#readandplay (482) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Celebrating Hunter’s end. youtu.be/fxvkI9MTQw4

I thought they said my voice was #sonorous but it was actually an objection Didn’t like the high pitch and apparently they think it’s weird to sing underwater #vss365

#LookAndSee (208) #MusicChallenge “I laid on a poppy It laid on me A lot of thinking And did it all for free I thought of you” youtu.be/XK-912Vh1-8

Japan-Don’t Rain On My Parade (1978) Originally recorded in 1964 by Barbara Streisand for the soundtrack of the musical “Funny Girl”. Japan’s first single and probably closer to hair metal than the synth-heavy fare by which they would become better known. #5CoverSongsSwitch #MusicChallenge

#readandplay (481) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “Too many protest singers Not enough protest songs” youtu.be/6oqJ0JpMj6

Do stuff on a whim Use food for clothes like pants cress glove icing, cap rice #caprice #vss365

#LookAndSee (207) #MusicChallenge “Feeling followed Feeling tagged Crossing water Trying to wipe my tracks & there's some little jerk in the FBI keepin' papers on me six feet high It gets me down, it gets me down You better watch out On your telephone Wrong number They know you ain't home”

Bonkers and fun song that came out during a really sad time for the B52s. youtu.be/jpKEzFZYqBg

#readandplay (480) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “someone passed some bliss among the crowd then we walked back to the road unchained” youtu.be/SVF8V4VKSX8

So this ain’t rapture And what have you done? Another grift over And a new one just begun

Christ on a bike, the “get some pro AI news stories out there ASAP” vibe is not subtle. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In the #eventuality I turn to spirituality To explain a knowledge gap Do me a favour old chap Cross the road Walk away Pod people are real #vss365

#LookAndSee (206) #MusicChallenge Guess I’m the only fart here old enough to remember this band. youtu.be/cPP65EGsGY8

IYKYK youtu.be/0gQVS2fCsek

I have coffee and walnut cake. Kind of ambivalent about the whole rapture thing.

#readandplay (479) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “You push push push so good You push you push my buttons good” youtu.be/X9rMaN7YhWc

RIP Dickie Bird Umpires shouldn’t really become famous, but we’ll let you off.

Never a #bellwether A fashion leader Hippest of the hip Winter I had risen Five o’clock that morning Got dressed in the dark That’s why my pullover Was inside out, back to front With the label beneath my throat No-one told me Let me see for myself near Dewsbury Thank you fellow commuters #vss365

Ah, this is like a warm bath youtu.be/vWLJeqLPfSU

Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner Tim Worthington

Me, on the way to the rapture:

#readandplay (478) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Be different Be unique Most of all, be safe “You can change yr clothes Change yr hairstyle, yr friends, cities, continents... But sooner or later yr own self will always catch up Always it waits in the wings” youtu.be/s59rx_VBCY8

Are you feeling good? You #reinvigorated ? You haiku hater #vss365

#LookAndSee (205) #MusicChallenge From the Dead Kennedys album “Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables” youtu.be/Ub4E2RHwc30

#readandplay (477) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “You get a dose and a ghost You get it coast to coast Now you dye your hair black Get Satan tattooed on your back You pierce yourself with a Coke can And rub yourself in fake tan 'Cause this is the music Movin' on, we're movin' on”

#perhaps mayhap perchance haply conceivably peradventure possibly maybe there’s an outside chance the faintest glimmer of a hope a remote possibility a slim unlikely long shot a snowball’s chance in hell yet a non zero probability that one day he just never wakes up #vss365